Thomas Piketty attributes rising inequality in the U.S. primarily to huge increases in the salaries of CEOs and other top executives, but he misinterprets the evidence. Rising salaries of top executives actually explain very little of the rise in inequality, and they depressed other employees’ pay by only a negligible amount.

After having found that many men whose faces were broader than others' tend to lead successful firms, the same two UC Riverside professors have discovered that wide-faced males elicit self-serving behavior in others.